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3 things to know about AWS Glue DataBrew

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Amazon Web Services' new visual data preparation tool for AWS Glue allows users to clean and normalize data with an interactive point-and-click visual interface without writing custom code. AWS Glue DataBrew helps data scientists and data analysts get the data ready for analytics and machine learning (ML) 80 percent quicker than traditional data preparation approaches, according to the cloud provider, which made the tool generally available on Wednesday. The new offering builds on AWS Glue, which AWS generally released in April of 2017. AWS Glue is a serverless, fully managed, extract, transform and load (ETL) service to categorize, clean, enrich and move data between various data stores. It has a central data repository called the AWS Glue Data Catalog, an ETL engine that generates Python code automatically and a flexible scheduler to handle dependency resolution, job monitoring and retries.


Tucker decomposition-based Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Knowledge graphs have been demonstrated to be an effective tool for numerous intelligent applications. However, a large amount of valuable knowledge still exists implicitly in the knowledge graphs. To enrich the existing knowledge graphs, recent years witness that many algorithms for link prediction and knowledge graphs embedding have been designed to infer new facts. But most of these studies focus on the static knowledge graphs and ignore the temporal information that reflects the validity of knowledge. Developing the model for temporal knowledge graphs completion is an increasingly important task. In this paper, we build a new tensor decomposition model for temporal knowledge graphs completion inspired by the Tucker decomposition of order 4 tensor. We demonstrate that the proposed model is fully expressive and report state-of-the-art results for several public benchmarks. Additionally, we present several regularization schemes to improve the strategy and study their impact on the proposed model. Experimental studies on three temporal datasets (i.e. ICEWS2014, ICEWS2005-15, GDELT) justify our design and demonstrate that our model outperforms baselines with an explicit margin on link prediction task.


Chatbots Should Be An Abstraction Of Human Conversation

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When creating or rather crafting a chatbot conversation we as designers must draw inspiration and guidance from real-world conversations. Elements of human conversation should be identified and abstracted to be incorporated in our chatbot conversation. General rules and concepts of human conversations must be derived and implemented via technically astute means. Below I list 10 elements of human conversation which can be incorporated in a Conversational AI interface. Conversational designers want users to speak to their chatbot as to a humanโ€ฆhence it is time for the chatbot to converse more human like. Christoph Niemann has fascinating ideas on abstraction and when visual design becomes too abstract. The speaker introduces a topic, subsequently the speaker introduces a second topic, another story that seems to be unrelated.


Nigeria and the Bold New World of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, By Inyene Ibanga

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Certainly, Nigerians look forward to more government investments in the development of digital infrastructure across other sections of the country. So, it is imperative for the government to provide necessary funding to expand this centre to other parts of the country. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has again achieved another milestone with the launch of the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR) as part of its contribution to the successful implementation of the digital economy. Coming at a time when the global economy is rapidly transforming into the new economy driven by creative innovations derived from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), the unveiling of this state-of-the-art technology innovation centre can be described as futuristic, in the sense that it is a remarkable demonstration of proactivity on the part of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and NITDA. NCAIR represents government's determination to create a suitable environment for discovering and harnessing the abundant creative ideas of Nigeria's teeming youth population for national development through the promotion of innovative technologies. With the actualisation of this centre, the youth segment of the population would be challenged to channel their creative energies towards preparing solutions that seek to address future problems or challenges across all sectors of the economy.


Data labeling industry

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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is at the core of a vision that leads the future of our world. Its main goal is to provide autonomous solutions for each mankind's problem, a fully automated system that will serve humans and live among them. Artificial Intelligence is the technology to fulfill such a vision. At the intersection of computer science and data science, AI's first step is to create a computational representation of everything. Algorithms & Big Data are the two keys.


Japan to build first-ever checkup system with AI and advanced data storage

The Japan Times

A Japanese government-funded project to develop the world's first predictive maintenance system for industrial plants will employ artificial intelligence and advanced technology to store data in a secure and user-centric way. The IOTA Foundation, a German-based nonprofit organization behind the technology, said it has been chosen as a partner in the project funded by Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, a national research and development agency operating under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The project, which seeks to strengthen the durability of critical infrastructure, will optimize facility management systems deployed in power, industrial, petrochemicals and oil refining plants throughout Japan by digitizing maintenance data and using artificial intelligence to predict when checkups are needed, according to the foundation. Data for plants across Japan is currently stored manually, causing issues with integrity and sharing capability, it said. The project aims to shift data to a decentralized database using IOTA's distributed ledger service called the Tangle, while AI systems are expected to replace engineers amid Japan's shrinking labor force.


FG set to commission National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Abuja

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On the recent development, the National Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities that include;.


Automated Intersection Management with MiniZinc

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Ill-managed intersections are the primary reasons behind the increasing traffic problem in urban areas, leading to nonoptimal traffic-flow and unnecessary deadlocks. In this paper, we propose an automated intersection management system that extracts data from a well-defined grid of sensors and optimizes traffic flow by controlling traffic signals. The data extraction mechanism is independent of the optimization algorithm and this paper primarily emphasizes the later one. We have used MiniZinc modeling language to define our system as a constraint satisfaction problem which can be solved using any off-the-shelf solver. The proposed system performs much better than the systems currently in use. Our system reduces the mean waiting time and standard deviation of the waiting time of vehicles and avoids deadlocks.


Contextual Stochastic Block Model: Sharp Thresholds and Contiguity

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In the simplest version of this problem, given access to a graph, one seeks to cluster the vertices into interpretable communities or groups of vertices, which are believed to reflect latent similarities among the nodes. From a theoretical standpoint, this problem has been extensively analyzed under specific generative assumptions on the observed graph; the most popular generative model in this context is the stochastic block model (SBM) [22]. Inspired by intriguing conjectures arising from the statistical physics community [29], community detection under the stochastic block model has been studied extensively. As a consequence, the precise information theoretic limits for recovering the underlying communities have been derived, and optimal algorithms have been identified in this setting (for a survey of these recent breakthroughs, see [1]). In reality, the practitioner often has access to additional information in the form of node covariates, which complements the graph information.


Explaining the Adaptive Generalisation Gap

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We conjecture that the reason for the difference in generalisation between adaptive and non adaptive gradient methods stems from the failure of adaptive methods to account for the greater levels of noise associated with flatter directions in their estimates of local curvature. This conjecture motivated by results in random matrix theory has implications for optimisation in both simple convex settings and deep neural networks. We demonstrate that typical schedules used for adaptive methods (with low numerical stability or damping constants) serve to bias relative movement towards flat directions relative to sharp directions, effectively amplifying the noise-to-signal ratio and harming generalisation. We show that the numerical stability/damping constant used in these methods can be decomposed into a learning rate reduction and linear shrinkage of the estimated curvature matrix. We then demonstrate significant generalisation improvements by increasing the shrinkage coefficient, closing the generalisation gap entirely in our neural network experiments. Finally, we show that other popular modifications to adaptive methods, such as decoupled weight decay and partial adaptivity can be shown to calibrate parameter updates to make better use of sharper, more reliable directions.